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    Olga's Story: By Herself
    Olga's Story: By Herself
    Olga's Story: By Herself
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    Olga's Story: By Herself

    By Olga Soter

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    "My husband whispered of palms and tropical nights....what woman in my cicumstances, wouldn't have been swayed? So we left Europe and all we had known and sailed through the Suez Canal, which you could still do at that time, for Australian shores. It was an exciting time. Little did we know that the contract we had signed would lead us to the remote north-west of Australia, to a region about as remote and rugged as Siberia might have been! (p.10)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing
    Release dateNov 7, 2011
    ISBN9781934849835
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      Olga's Story - Olga Soter

      Olga’s Story

      March 20, 2011

      16 Toby Court, Quindalup. WA 6280

      Australia

      By Herself

      Olga Soter

      Published by The Educational Publisher at Smashwords.com

      Copyright 2011 Olga Soter

      Edited by Anna O. Soter

      Columbus, Ohio, USA

      Author May Be Contacted In Writing

      16 Toby Court, Quindalup, WA 6280

      Tel: 011-61- 8-97-56885 (International)

      Tel: 08-97-568857 (Within Australia)

      Produced and Published by The Educational Publisher, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2011.

      www.edupublisher.com

      ISBN: 1-934849-83-9

      ISBN13: 978-1-934849-83-5

      Copyright: © All rights and copyright reserved.

      Table of Contents

      Dedication and acknowledgements

      Foreword

      Olga’s Story Part I: From Austria to Australia

      Uprooting: Aftermath of W.W. II

      Departure and Embarkation

      Olga’s Story Part II: Life in Wittenoom,

      1950-1995

      Disembarkation and the Early Mining Days

      Our First Christmas in the Australian Bush

      The New Year – 1952 and Onward

      Olga’s Story Part III: The Decision to Stay: 35New Enterprises

      Going into Private Business and Closure of the Mine

      A New Way of Thinking about the Wittenoom Community

      New Goals: Tourism and Wittspark

      Olga’s Story Part IV: The Closing of the Town and 55 the End of Wittenoom Days

      The Shocker and its Aftermath

      From Wittspark to the Caravan Park to Departure

      Conclusion: Leaving Wittenoom

      Editor’s Postscript

      Dedication and acknowledgements

      To my family and friends

      And

      To wittenoom and all it meant to us.

      There are many I would like to thank and they are so numerous that it would fill the pages of this book. I will just say that without you all in my life in some way, I would never have been able to look back and say, It was worth every minute of it.

      Thank you all for being in my life, and thank you for your unlimited generosity in making it be what it was. A special thanks to my family in Austria, my children, and to Frank, my husband, without whom none of this would have been possible.

      Foreword

      My mother did not know that I had decided to edit and publish this book on her behalf for her 83rd birthday, and I hope she can live with some of the liberties I’ve taken in speaking for her in the dedication and acknowledgements, as well as in some of the text which I felt would benefit from some minor filling in for those readers who have no idea of what and where Wittenoom is and the history of that intriguing community as well as the people who made it what it was. As I read and re-read the manuscript many times, I found myself marveling at her life, at who she is as a person, at what she experienced, and often endured, and how she managed to remain strong and mostly upbeat through all those challenges.

      Any editing I have done has focused on mechanics – dividing, layout, editing and proofing. Olga wrote the story and in terms of content, it remains as she recalled and recorded it. It is her voice, her recollection of her life - what has remained salient for her. We recall what matters to us and in our memoirs, we can be indulged to the extent that readers understand that what they are reading is drawn from our memories, favored for one reason or other, retold through the lens of where we are in the present. Facts and recollections are not synonymous. What is interesting is what is recalled and how it is represented. If there is blurring of chronology, turn to a history book. Our interest in memoir is the voice itself – in this case, Olga’s voice, and the persona that voices it.

      It’s a truism that for most of our lives, we see our parents (and children) as just that – parents, and children. My mother, despite the fact that we’re all over 40 now, still refers to us as You kids (!!). Bless her heart. Of course, we’ll always be her kids. That is the way it is with most mothers. Editing this story for her enabled me to see, more than all the conversations we’ve had over the years when I visited home, more than the occasional table-thumping I’m the matriarch declarations when we’d had a glass of wine or two, that she indeed is The Matriarch! and that her story is really the foundation of the individual stories of her spouse and her

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